List of Famous people born in Russia

Konstantin Mirovich Kozeyev is a retired Russian cosmonaut.

Lev Kovpak is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas. He is a distant relative of the Hero of the Soviet Union Sydir Kovpak.

Alexey Konstantinovich Uzenyuk, better known as Eldzhey, sometimes also Allj, is a Russian hip-hop artist, best known for his hit singles "Розовое вино", "Рваные джинсы" and "360°".

Dmitri Alperovitch is a Russian-born American computer security industry executive. He is co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike. In August 2011, as vice president of threat research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee. Alperovitch is a naturalized American citizen born in Russia who came to the United States in 1994 with his family.

Oleg Vladimirovich Besov is a Russian mathematician. He heads the Department of Function Theory at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, where he defended his PhD in 1960 and habilitation in 1966. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1970 in Nice. He is professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and European Academy of Sciences.

Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competes in the 400 metres and 400 metre hurdles. She won the gold medal in 400m hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics, after winning a bronze medal in the 400 m dash at the 2004 Olympics. She is the only woman to win an Olympic medal in both the 400 m hurdles and 400 m dash.